10/19/25 Moments of Consequence

Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz

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🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Persist through severity.

There are big moments in our lives. We usually think of the beginning or the end of something as the moments of consequence. But the middle often holds the most impactful moments of consequence; times when we are called to persevere...to "remain faithful" to the decisions we have made.

Mass Readings from October 19, 2025:
Exodus 17:8-13
Psalm 121:1-8
2 Timothy 3:14-4:2

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sunday homilies with me, Father Mike Schmitz. I hope today's homily inspires and motivates you,
0:07.6	and I also hope that it leaves you hungry for the one who gave everything to feed you.
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0:28.3	God bless.
0:29.9	The Lord be with you.
0:31.5	A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.
0:35.5	Glory to you, Lord.
0:37.1	Chapter 18, verses 1 through 8.
0:40.5	Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without
0:45.1	becoming weary.
0:46.9	He said there was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human
0:50.9	being.
0:51.9	A widow in that town used to come to him and ask and say, render a just
0:55.7	decision for me against my adversary. For long time, the judge was unwilling. But eventually he thought,
1:02.4	while it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps
1:07.2	bothering me, I shall deliver a just decision for her, lest she finally come and strike me.
1:12.9	The Lord said, pay attention to what the dishonest judge says.
1:17.6	Will not God, then, secure the rights of his chosen one, who calls out to him day and night?
1:22.8	Will he be slow to answer them?
1:25.3	I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily.
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